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Specs

Too late solutions

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Flash at 6: Google calls Dave Winer. Ooo. The suspense. Per Sam Ruby: Robert Sayre: I noticed that the links his comment form have an interesting rel attribute. Implemented. Prediction: that wouldn’t solve the problem. I agree with Sam — this isn’t going to solve the problem. Gas station cash registers have […]

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Technology Weblogging

Take your hands off the tech and back away slowly

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Several people have linked to Martin Schwimmer and his indignation about the fact that Bloglines re-prints the content of his post, without attribution and with the possibility of future advertisements (…or guilty until proven innocent). This violates the cc license, he says, because he can only be republished if proper attribution is […]

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History Photography Places

Shaw’s Garden

When the balance sheet for 1839 was struck it showed, to the great surprise of Mr. Shaw, a net gain for the year of $25,000. He could not believe his own figures, and so went over them again and again until he could no longer doubt the fact. Telling the story many years afterward he […]

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Technology

Be Stingy

Regarding Dave Winer’s idea for some form of centralized syndication feed system, I got a chuckle out of the comment, “What problem am I having and how is a centralized service going to help?” in Phil Ringalda’s post Centralized Subscription? Not that way thanks. You see now the great benefit of being exposed to us techs through weblogging: […]

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Weather

From summer to winter in hours

It’s hard to believe looking at this photo that a scant 12 hours before, the temperature was in the 70’s and I was out walking in my t-shirt, driving with the windows down. We went from windy, warm, and wet to a very wet and strong thunderstorm last night, which turned into a snow storm […]